The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-05-27

and most bruised and most battered in
the wreck; and l want you to know that
these vicious poor have had two
shipwrecks-shipwrec Of the BODY, ship
wreck Of the soul-shipwreck for time,
shipwreck for eternity. Pity, by all
means. the innocent who are suffering,
but pity more the guilty.
Pass on through the alley. Open the
door. ''Oh," you say, sit is locked" No,
it is not locked. 1t has never been locked.
No burglar would be tempted to 60 in
there to steal any thing. The door is
never locked. Only broken chair stands
against the door. Shove it back. Go in.
Strike match. Now, look. Beastliness
Be careful now what you say. Do not
picion, il you value your life. What is
that red mark on the WALT 1t Is the mark
of murderer's handl
Look at those two eyes rising up out Of
the darkness and out from the straw in
the corner, coming toward you. and as
they come near you. your light goes out.
Strike another match. Ali this is babe,
not like those beautiful children presented
in baptism. This little one never smiled;
it never will smile. A flower flung on an
awfully barren beach. Oh, Heavenly
Shepherd. fold that little one in thy arms.
Wrap around you your shaw or your coat
tighter. for the cold wind sweeps through.
Strike another match. All! is it pos
sble that that young woman's SCARED
and bruised face ever was looked into by
maternal tenderness! Utter no scorn.
Utter no harsh word No ray of hope has
dawned on that brow for many year.
No ray of hope ever will dawn on that
brow. But the light has gone out. Do
not strike another light. 1t would be
a mockery to kindle another light
in such a place rs that Pass out and
pass down the street. Our cities of
Brooklyn and New York and all our great
cities are full of such homes, and the
worst time the third watch of the night.
Do you know it is in this third watch of
the night that criminals do their worst
worka 1t is the criminals watch.
At haif-past eight o'clock you will find
them in the drinking saloon, but toward
twelve o'clock they go to their garrets,
they get out their tools, then they start
on the street. Watching on either side
for the police, they 60 to their work Of
darkness. This is burglar, and the false
key will soon touch the store lock- This
is an inc,ndiary, and before morning
there will be a light on the sky,
and cry of sire! fret" This is an
assassin, and tomorrow morning there
will be dead body in one Of the
vacant lots. During the daytime these
villains in our cities lounge about, some
asleep and some awake, but when the
third watch Of the night arrives. their
eyes are keen. their brain cool, their arm
strong, their foot fleet to f. or pursue,
they are ready.
Many of these poor creatures were
brought up in that way. They were born
in thieves garnet. Their childish toy
was burglars dark lantern. The first
thing they remember was their mother
bandaging the brow of their father. struck
by the police club. They began by rob-
bling boys pockets. and now they have
come to dig the underground passage to
the cellar Of the bank, and are preparing
to blast the gold vault
Just so long as there are neglected chill.
dren on the street, just so long we will
have these desperadoes. Some one, wish
ing to make good Christian point aud to
quote passage of Scripture, expecting
to get a Scriptural passage in answer,
said to one of these poor lads, cast out
and wretched: "When your father and
your mother forsake YOU, who, then, will
take you upl" and the boy said: "The
perlice, the perlice!"
In the third watch Of the night gambling
does its worst work. What though the
hours be slipping away, and though the
wife be waiting in the cheerless home!
Stir up the fire. Bring on more drinks.
Put up more stakes. That commercial
house that only little while ago put out
a sign Of copartn ership will this winter
be wrecked on q gamblers table. There
will be many a money-till that will spring
a leak. A member of Congress gambled
with member elect and won S120.O 600.
The old way of getting living is so slow.
The oil way of getting a fortune is so
stupid. Come, let US toss up and see who
shall have it. And so the work goes on,
from the wheeling wretches pitching PEN
MES in a rum grocery up to the millionaire
gambler in the stock market
In the third watch of the night, pass
down the streets of these cities. and YOU
hear the click of the dice, and the sharp,
keen stroke of the ball on the billiard Ia
BILE. At these places merchant princes
dismount, and legislators, tired of max
ing laws, take a respite in breaking them.
All classes of people are robbed by this
crime-the importer Of foreign silks and
the dealer of Chatham street pocket
handkerchiefs. The clerks Of the store
take hand after the shutters are put up.
and the officers Of the court while away
their time while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was
the greatest Of all gambling places on
earth, it was no unusual thing in the
morning, in the woods around about
the city, to find the suspended bod
les of suicides Whatever be the splen-
dor of surroundings, there is no ex-
cuse for this crime. The thunders of
eternal destruction roll in the deep rumble
Of that gambling ten-pin alley, and as
men come out to join the long procession
of sin, all the drums Of death beat the
dead-march of a thousand souls.
In one year. in the city of New York,
there were s7,00o.O0) sacrificed at the
gaming table. Perhaps some Of your
friends have been smitten by it.
Perhaps there may be stranger in the
house this morning come from some Of
the hotels. Look out for those agents of
iniquity who larry around about the
hotels, and ask you: "Would you like to
see the cityg' "Yes." "Have you ever
seen that splendid building up tow ne"
NO" Then the villain will I'M
dertake to show you what he calls the
''lions" and the elephants" and after
young man, through morbid curiosity
or through badness Of soul, has seen the
''lions' and the elephants. "he will be on
enchanted ground. Look out for these
men who move around the hotels with
sleek hats-and patronizing air, and I'M
accountable interest about your welfare
and entertainment You are fool if you
can not see through it. They want your
money.
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia, while
was living in that CITY an incident oc-